Ebook download for mobile free Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema PDF RTF in English
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Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema by Annette Kuhn
- Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
- Annette Kuhn
- Page: 232
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9780860919933
- Publisher: Verso
Ebook download for mobile free Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema PDF RTF in English
Overview
This is especially true of the science fiction film—a genre as old as cinema itself—which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently, under the aegis of feminist film theory, the so-called "woman's film." Alien Zone aims to bring science fiction cinema fully into the ambit of cultural theory in general and of film theory in particular. The essays in this book—some newly written, others gathered from scattered sources—look at the ways in which contemporary science fiction films draw on, rework, and transform established themes and conventions of the genre: the mise-en-scene of future worlds; the myth of masculine mastery of nature; power and authority